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Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - 2010

commuting distance using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance is …

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Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley

Gibson, Matthew - 2022

Adam Smith alleged that employers sometimes secretly collude to reduce labor earnings. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: illegal no-poaching agreements through which information-technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly...

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Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry : Evidence from Germany

Bachmann, Ronald - 2012

in industries and regions with low barriers to entry. This is particularly the case in East Germany, where the perceived …

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Paying to Avoid Recession : Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment

Borgschulte, Mark - 2016

This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment labor market by examining the behavior of military servicemembers deciding between reenlisting and exiting the military. We find that servicemembers would sacrifice 1.5-2% in...

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The Price of Warm Glow

Lilley, Andrew - 2013

allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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Lumpy Price Adjustments : A Microeconometric Analysis

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Fuss, Catherine; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2021

the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …

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Lucifora, Claudio - 2012

This paper investigates the causal effect of a switch from fixed wages to collective performance-related pay on firm productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment regulating collective bargaining. We find that the introduction of collective performance related...

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Workers Made Idle by Company Strikes and the 'British Disease'

Hart, Robert A. - 2009

The strikes' literature is dominated by the causes and effects of strike action as they relate directly to strikers themselves. This paper considers another important group of affected workers - those individuals incidentally made idle as a result of the strike action of others. Using a unique...

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Spillover Effects of Energy Transition Metals in Chile

Agnese, Pablo; Rios, Francisco - 2023

This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant countries like Chile must ready themselves to remain...

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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …

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